Tag: openrain
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2008 Year-End OpenRain Reflections
A couple weeks ago OpenRain had a private dinner party for staff and significant others to get to know each other better. Amidst each new wine bottle we talked about friends, family, etc… and discovered that our graphic designer becomes exceedingly funny with each glass of Pino. Beforehand, though, we had an internal meeting to note…
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Speaking At Joe Developer: Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
This Wednesday evening, OpenRain will be hosting and providing food for Phoenix’s East-valley Joe Developer group. I’ll be giving a getting-started-with-ruby-on-rails type demo, after which I’m sure there’ll be good conversation and fun. Attendance and food are free. Food will be hot at 6PM. [Venue] [Google Group]
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Journeta Podcast Now Available (Rubyology #70)
Chris Matthieu of Rubyology has posted the audio from my PRUG talk last week on building Ruby P2P apps with Journeta. Chris did an excellent editing job and the final product turned out very well! [iTunes] [Web] Running Time: ~1:04
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Financial Primer For Self-Funded Startups, Part 1
You’ve considered starting your own business–ExampleTech–and have pondered the initial investment, opportunity costs and personal risks. Here’s a brief financial primer on what you need to understand before taking the big leap, and key issues you’ll need to grok for after ExampleTech begins operations. My big leap is OpenRain, for which I manage financial planning and performance amongst a…
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Presenting At September 2008 Phoenix Ruby Users Group
I’ll be presenting at the September 2008 Phoenix Ruby Users Group on Monday, September 8th, covering development of Ruby peer-to-peer applications using OpenRain‘s latest gem release, Journeta. Topics will include Ruby’s threading model, basic networking review, Journeta usage, and live demos. 6:30PM, here. [Location Details] [PRUG Google Group] See you there!
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Ruby Search Bookmarklet For Ru8y.com
Marc Chung put up a quick Ruby documentation search site recently: http://ru8y.org. Here a quick little bookmarklet for your Ruby searching needs. (Drag it to your toolbar.) Ru8y Search
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Need Monitor Color Profiles (.ICC Files)
OpenRain will be launching a simple, online .ICC monitor color profile database shortly, and is looking for .ICC file contributions generated with hardware colorimeters. We’re also looking for administrators/moderators to add display models, remove bogus content, seek out .ICCs for missing models and suggest new features. If you work in the computers or graphic design…
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OpenRain 1.0 Officially Launched w/New Logo & Blog!
Pretty much all of OpenRain’s Q2 internal efforts boil down to tomorrow’s open house: a massive milestone date where all our startupy HR, legal and infrastructure tasks are done, and we consider ourselves a properly running software development company under a new brand. OpenRain 1.0 is neither a product nor service, but a state-of-being which…
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Hacker Shopping Cart
My shopping cart.. Energy drinks. Energy bars. Energy backups. Guess what I do for a living. 🙂